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CES: Wireless payments at the register with your cell phone are around the corner

CES: Wireless payments at the register with your cell phone are around the cornerThis has been in Asia for yearsI remember the Computer Chronicles when the show was still on the air back in 2000 was showing that customers in Singapore, or someplace in that region (maybe Japan?) were able...

Tags: wireless payment, phone, wireless, kushcash, cell phone

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

CES: Wireless payments at the register with your cell phone are around the corner

After seeing the demonstration that Visa just gave me at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Im pretty sure it wont be too long before many of us will be paying for everything from our groceries to our Dunkin Donuts wirelessly with our cell phones. Visa had a "pod"...

Tags: general, software infrastructure, mobile, personal technology, wired &, wireless, telephony, events, ces 2007, disruptive technology, credit card, telephone, near field communication

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Optimum M4100

Reaching the full potential of wireless payment technologies takes innovative design and foresight. In meeting the evolving needs of the wireless market, Hypercom created the Optimum M4100 wireless terminal, the first point-of-service device to truly target the nuances of wireless payment. The Optimum M4100 redefines industry possibilities by integrating high...

Tags: hypercom corp., wireless payment, optimum m4100, wi-fi, wireless

White papers 2006-04-17

Design and Implementation of Wireless Payment System Using GVM and MobileC

This paper suggests that MobileC-based wireless payment system to execute on GVM General Virtual Machine based application program download solution. The wireless payment system is composed of initialization process and transaction process. Initialization process is to download program of payment system, formal authentication certificate and personal credit information to mobile...

Tags: mobile device, wireless payment, wireless, wireless payment system

White papers 2005-02-28

Additional Resources

Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktop

Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktopIt's GainingI think Ubuntu and Wubi have made big strides in putting Linux on the desktop. My first encounter with Linux was back in the early(?)/mid 90s. I installed an early Slackware version of Linux on my 486 (along with OS/2, PC/DOS, Win 3.1...

Tags: operating systems, unix, open source, intel corp., ubuntu, wubi, newbie, linux, microsoft windows, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Logitech diNovo Edge Mac keyboard

Keyboards are keyboards, right? Not exactly... I've taken Apple to task before about their new thin-profile aluminum keyboards, but like anything, you get used to them eventually. If you're looking for something completely different in the keyboard department, check out the Logitech ...

Tags: apple macintosh, logitech, keyboards, hardware, peripherals, jason d. o\'grady

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Useful: Cradlepoint PHS300 Personal Hotspot

The Cradlepoint PHS300 (US$179) creates a personal hotspot with a mobile broadband card like the many EV-DO data cards from carriers like Verizon. I recently got a chance to test a PHS300 on a trip to Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN. Several of us were traveling to the...

Tags: card, hotspot, mobile broadband, cradlepoint phs300, wireless, jason d. o\'grady

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Delta rolls out Wi-Fi across U.S. fleet

Delta rolls out Wi-Fi across U.S. fleetTOO EXPENSIVE!Honestly, does ANYONE *really* NEED Internet Access *THAT* badly to pay such *STEEP* prices?I don't think so. I can live without access for a day!If your boss wants to foot the bill... Fine! It's his dime...But, there ain't NO WAY it's coming out...

Tags: wireless lans, wireless, in-flight entertainment system, u.s. fleet, delta, wi-fi

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?

Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?Sprint's customer service is execrable*.Sprint's customer service was the reason I dumped them years ago. The customer service was so bad that if I faced a choice of Sprint or going without a cell phone, I'd go without. They will never under any circumstance...

Tags: product marketing, customer relationship management (crm), sprint communications, at&t corp., customer service

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Time for Google to take out Sprint

Time for Google to take out SprintWhy change the name?The Sprint name stands for poor quality. Google has a reputation for high quality.I assume that, along with the name change, Google might institute policy changes which would decrease dissatisfaction with the brand, in order to protect its own good name.Sprint...

Tags: wimax, product marketing, wi-fi, wireless, branding, telecom & utilities, google inc., sprint communications

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?

Sprint had some good news Wednesday: The wireless provider lost 901,000 net customers and only 776,000 post-paid subscribers in the second quarter. Wall Street was expecting more customer defections. For instance, Morgan Stanley was expecting post-paid subscriber losses of 947,000. But let's get real here: Sprint is on the ropes...

Tags: sprint communications, product marketing, customer relationship management (crm), wi-fi, wireless, marketing, enterprise software, software, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Zittrain explains the future of the Internet

Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...

Tags: router, technology, zittrain, internet, routers & switches, networking, andrew mager

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Time for Google to take out Sprint

Buy the preferred, becoming Sprint's largest shareholder. Then, with institutional support, change the brand name to Google Wireless. Or Google Clearwire. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: google inc., clearwire corp., sprint communications, wimax, wi-fi, wireless, branding, marketing, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-06

The fast track to mobile Linux

Linux can replace RTOSs while the RTOS is still there to support the wireless stack by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: phone, mobile, mobile linux, linux, unix, advertising & promotion, operating systems, open source, software, marketing, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Did the iPhone 2.0.1 update improve the 3G/EDGE auto switching?

Did the iPhone 2.0.1 update improve the 3G/EDGE auto switching?Emailing in the bathroom?Kinda skeevy to be emailing/browsing web in bathroom. I hope you don't let others borrow your phone.RE: Did the iPhone 2.0.1 update improve the 3G/EDGE auto switching?It didn't help here. My iPhone 3G has always been too slow...

Tags: 3g, wireless, cellular phones, wi-fi, iphone 2.0.1, apple iphone

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Sonos ZoneBridge BR100 - wireless bridge

The Sonos ZoneBridge BR100 is a wireless bridge for the Sonos Digital Music System. The $100 unit doesn't have any audio outputs; instead, it's just designed to pass wireless signals between Sonos ZonePlayer base stations. In that regard, it can be used to fill in "dead spaces" in a home's...

Tags: wireless bridge, wireless, sonos

Product reviews 2008-08-05

Sonos ZonePlayer ZP120

The Sonos ZonePlayer ZP120 is the amplified base station portion of the Sonos Digital Music System. One ZP120 is included with the Sonos Bundle 150 (BU150), but additional units, for expanding the wireless music network into more rooms, can be purchased for $500 each. Because it has a built-in amplifier...

Tags: sonos

Product reviews 2008-08-05

Sonos ZonePlayer ZP80

Editors' note: As of August 2008, this product has been replaced by the Sonos ZonePlayer ZP90. That upgraded model adds faster wireless access, but is otherwise the same as the older ZP80 listed here.

Tags: sonos

Product reviews 2008-08-05

Sonos ZonePlayer ZP90

The Sonos ZonePlayer ZP90 is the non-amplified base station portion of the Sonos Digital Music System. One ZP90 is included with the Sonos Bundle 150 (BU150), but additional units for expanding the wireless music network into more rooms can be purchased for $350 each. (As of August 2008, the ZP90...

Tags: sonos, sonos zoneplayer zp90, sonos zoneplayer

Product reviews 2008-08-05

NETGEAR RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router WNDR3300 - wireless router

The Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router WNDR3300 features a rather misleading name. The router doesn't support true dual-band wireless-N, nor does it offer very good range. It's a basic router with two separate access points AP, one of which supports Wireless-N and can operate in either 2.4GHz or...

Tags: routers & switches, network technology, networking, home networking, wireless, wireless router, router, wndr3300, netgear, netgear rangemax, netgear rangemax dual band wireless-n router wndr3300

Product reviews 2008-08-05